Hmm, I decided to come here on the off chance some one might be able to give me some advice.

I wouldn't say I'm an "absolute" beginner as I do have some experience with robotics, but its only been from kits, I haven't built and programmed something from scratch yet. Over the years I have collecteda great deal of items which I feel may be useful to create some form of robot, but its hard to know exactly where to start. Here are the details as follows:

Well my friends, I think its time for me to enter the world of arduino. After working on my last project (I will post it soon, its for the google science fair so I just have to finish up it's website.) I have deciced ill have a go at arduino. The reason I came to this conclusion is I needed something that can do simple multi-tasking. During my google science fair project (That I will post soon to LMR) I needed to do two things at once. The first was very simple. I just wanted it to go down and come back a little to the side of the first path down a

I had a great time in Toronto for this years Robot games. I managed to get 2nd place in the masters mini sumo competition with Blaster shark. I made a new robot called Driller shark which I will post shortly in the robot section. It didn't do that well, but all in all I had fun. Here are the pictures.

I dismantled a cd drive from my old laptop yesterday, and found out that the plastic frame and insides were a pretty good chassis for a robot. It will have an LCD screen, use an IR sensor for not running into walls, and possibly some odds and ends here and there. Does anyone have any suggestions for some of the features that would be integrated into this robot? I am using a Picaxe 28x1.

So I've decided to build my first robot which not the LMR "start here" one (that one is going to be my second one) and im using this circuit- http://costaricabeam.solarbotics.net/Circuits/Vores/555%20Photovore.png . I've tried about 10 different designs for the body but its just not working. When i cover the left photocell with my hand and the other one is exposed to light the speed of the motors is the same and same with the right photocell. has anyone tried the circuit? did it work?

Hi everyone! First let me just say I love this site.It's an enormous wealth of information for an enthusiast like me. I have a few concerns with a project I am working on and would love a little input.

I have started the build of the first Drone prototype for my little ant farm project. I plan on building around 4 Drones and a Builder.

1. The Drones:

Chassis:

The Drones will be as simple as possible, using TH components, as is hard to prototype with SMD. A double sided, plated holes prototyping board will be used as the chassis. The board is 38mm x 38mm and it can get smaller only if I use a smaller battery.

What started as a showcase for my WowWee robot collection is turning into a place to show the robots and projects I've been building. For the newly created robots, I am putting up their descriptions, sketch code and listing the sources of the parts I made the things with. I suppose I could post the robots here on LMR, but they're already online so I figured what the hey. If you get lost over there, there's a link to LMR on every page to find your way back with. Here's the page.

i'm working on AGV project rite now.low cost AGV.i'm totally dont have knowledge in software part that is programming part?especially to do the coding for the robot.but for hardware part is not a problem to me.can somebody help me with the coding part?i'm using atmel microcontroller and will attach with stepper motor.for sensor i'm using ultrasonic for obsctacels sensor.

Actually m from india . speaking straight, " i can't spend much but also can't live without robotics".

so please give me some advices to not to kill my love towards robotics. i m a student of electronics but here in my college we do not have such facalities for electronics students. so please guide me about how to begin and what resources to use to get over the money problem.

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